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was a band of Ponca Indians under arrest for running away from the Indian Territory. 

    This assistant editor of the Herald (T.H. Tibbles) had a strange history. He said he had been born on the frontier, never had had any raising, and did not pretend to be civilized. He was a thorough newspaper man, and had held positions as an editorial writer on several leading papers. He had the medical, legal, theological, turf, stage and musical terms at his tongue's end. He carried perhaps the marks of more gunshot and other wounds on his person than any other man in a thousand miles from him. He was one of the best shots with a revolver in the west. He commenced life by enlisting in Jim Lane's company in Kansas in 1856, and was in every prominent fight during the bloody wars which lasted for two years in that Territory. Part of the time he was in old John Brown's company. Such was the individual who sat at the Herald table on that night. When informed of what had occurred at the barracks, he brought his fist down on the table and said, "Those Indians shall not be taken back to die in Indian Territory."

    ...his duties kept him at the office until the paper went to press at four o'clock in the morning. That morning he retired at 4:30 a.m., and rose at seven a.m., and immediately started on foot to Fort Omaha, four miles distant. It was on Sunday, and ...he found an interpreter,